{"id":120918,"date":"2024-11-01T18:21:44","date_gmt":"2024-11-01T11:21:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=120918"},"modified":"2024-11-01T18:21:44","modified_gmt":"2024-11-01T11:21:44","slug":"nevaeh-crain-died-during-a-miscarriage-after-trying-to-get-care-in-texas-hospitals-propublica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=120918","title":{"rendered":"Nevaeh Crain Died During a Miscarriage After Trying to Get Care in Texas Hospitals \u2014 ProPublica"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-pp-location=\"article body\">\n<div class=\"article-body__top-notes\" data-pp-location=\"top-note\">\n<div class=\"article-body__note article-body__note--newsletter\" id=\"newsletter-txt-note\">\n<p>ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive <a href=\"https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/newsletters\/the-big-story?source=www.propublica.org&amp;placement=top-note&amp;region=national\">our biggest stories<\/a> as soon as they\u2019re published.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- end .article-body__top-notes --><\/p>\n<div class=\"highlights\">\n<h3 class=\"highlights__heading\">Reporting Highlights<\/h3>\n<ul class=\"highlights__list\">\n<li class=\"highlights__highlight\"><span class=\"highlights__subheading\">Three Trips to the ER: <\/span> At 6 months pregnant, Nevaeh Crain visited   two Texas ERs a total of three times in 20 hours, seeking care for troubling symptoms.<\/li>\n<li class=\"highlights__highlight\"><span class=\"highlights__subheading\">Fetal Tests Cost Time: <\/span> On her third trip, a doctor insisted on two ultrasounds to \u201cconfirm fetal demise\u201d before moving her to intensive care. Hours later, Crain died.<\/li>\n<li class=\"highlights__highlight\"><span class=\"highlights__subheading\">One of at Least Two Deaths: <\/span> Crain is one of at least two Texas women who died under the state abortion ban. Josseli Barnica died after a miscarriage in 2021.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"highlights__disclaimer\">\n        These highlights were written by the reporters and editors who worked on this story. <span id=\"survey-placeholder\"\/>\n    <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p data-pp-blocktype=\"copy\" data-pp-id=\"1.0\">Candace Fails screamed for someone in the Texas hospital to help her pregnant daughter. \u201cDo something,\u201d she pleaded, on the morning of Oct. 29, 2023.<\/p>\n<p data-pp-blocktype=\"copy\" data-pp-id=\"2.0\">Nevaeh Crain was crying in pain, too weak to walk, blood staining her thighs. Feverish and vomiting the day of her baby shower, the 18-year-old had gone to two different emergency rooms within 12 hours, returning home each time worse than before.<\/p>\n<p data-pp-blocktype=\"copy\" data-pp-id=\"3.0\">The first hospital diagnosed her with strep throat without investigating her sharp abdominal cramps. At the second, she screened positive for sepsis, a life-threatening and fast-moving reaction to an infection, medical records show. But doctors said her six-month fetus had a heartbeat and that Crain was fine to leave.<\/p>\n<p data-pp-blocktype=\"copy\" data-pp-id=\"4.0\">Now on Crain\u2019s third hospital visit, an obstetrician insisted on two ultrasounds to \u201cconfirm fetal demise,\u201d a nurse wrote, before moving her to intensive care. <\/p>\n<p data-pp-blocktype=\"copy\" data-pp-id=\"4.1\">By then, more than two hours after her arrival, Crain\u2019s blood pressure had plummeted and a nurse had noted that her lips were \u201cblue and dusky.\u201d Her organs began failing. <\/p>\n<p data-pp-blocktype=\"copy\" data-pp-id=\"4.2\">Hours later, she was dead.<\/p>\n<p data-pp-blocktype=\"copy\" data-pp-id=\"4.3\">Fails, who would have seen her daughter turn 20 this Friday, still cannot understand why Crain\u2019s emergency was not treated like an emergency. <\/p>\n<p data-pp-blocktype=\"copy\" data-pp-id=\"4.4\">But that is what many pregnant women are now facing in states with strict abortion bans, doctors and lawyers have told ProPublica.<\/p>\n<p data-pp-blocktype=\"copy\" data-pp-id=\"4.5\">\u201cPregnant women have become essentially untouchables,\u201d said Sara Rosenbaum, a health law and policy professor emerita at George Washington University.<\/p>\n<p data-pp-blocktype=\"copy\" data-pp-id=\"5.0\">Texas\u2019s abortion ban threatens prison time for interventions that end a fetal heartbeat, whether the pregnancy is wanted or not. It includes exceptions for life-threatening conditions, but still, doctors told ProPublica that confusion and fear about the potential legal repercussions are changing the way their colleagues treat pregnant patients with complications.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"bb-ad full | hide-print\">\n<\/aside>\n<p data-pp-blocktype=\"copy\" data-pp-id=\"7.0\">In states with abortion bans, such patients are sometimes bounced between hospitals like \u201chot potatoes,\u201d with health care providers reluctant to participate in treatment that could attract a prosecutor, doctors told ProPublica. In some cases, medical teams are wasting precious time debating legalities and creating documentation, preparing for the possibility that they\u2019ll need to explain their actions to a jury and judge.<\/p>\n<p data-pp-blocktype=\"copy\" data-pp-id=\"8.0\">Dr. Jodi Abbott, an associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Boston University School of Medicine, said patients are left wondering: \u201cAm I being sent home because I really am OK? Or am I being sent home because they\u2019re afraid that the solution to what\u2019s going on with my pregnancy would be ending the pregnancy, and they\u2019re not allowed to do that?\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-pp-blocktype=\"copy\" data-pp-id=\"9.0\">There is a federal law to prevent emergency room doctors from withholding lifesaving care.<\/p>\n<p data-pp-blocktype=\"copy\" data-pp-id=\"11.0\">Passed nearly four decades ago, it requires emergency rooms to stabilize patients in medical crises. The Biden administration argues this mandate applies even in cases where an abortion might be necessary.<\/p>\n<p data-pp-blocktype=\"copy\" data-pp-id=\"12.0\">No state has done more to fight this interpretation than Texas, which has warned doctors that its abortion ban supersedes the administration\u2019s guidance on federal law, and that they can face up to 99 years in prison for violating it.<\/p>\n<p data-pp-blocktype=\"copy\" data-pp-id=\"13.0\">ProPublica condensed more than 800 pages of Crain\u2019s medical records into a four-page timeline in consultation with two maternal-fetal medicine specialists; reporters reviewed it with nine doctors, including researchers at prestigious universities, OB-GYNs who regularly handle miscarriages, and experts in emergency medicine and maternal health.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"bb-ad full | hide-print\">\n<\/aside>\n<p data-pp-blocktype=\"copy\" data-pp-id=\"15.0\">Some said the first ER missed warning signs of infection that deserved attention. All said that the doctor at the second hospital should never have sent Crain home when her signs of sepsis hadn\u2019t improved. And when she returned for the third time, all said there was no medical reason to make her wait for two ultrasounds before taking aggressive action to save her.<\/p>\n<p data-pp-blocktype=\"copy\" data-pp-id=\"16.0\">\u201cThis is how these restrictions kill women,\u201d said Dr. Dara Kass, a former regional director at the Department of Health and Human Services and an emergency room physician in New York. \u201cIt is never just one decision, it\u2019s never just one doctor, it\u2019s never just one nurse.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-pp-blocktype=\"copy\" data-pp-id=\"17.0\">While they were not certain from looking at the records provided that Crain\u2019s death could have been prevented, they said it may have been possible to save both the teenager and her fetus if she had been admitted earlier for close monitoring and continuous treatment.<\/p>\n<p data-pp-blocktype=\"copy\" data-pp-id=\"18.0\">There was a chance Crain could have remained pregnant, they said. If she had needed an early delivery, the hospital was well-equipped to care for a baby on the edge of viability. In another scenario, if the infection had gone too far, ending the pregnancy might have been necessary to save Crain.<\/p>\n<p data-pp-blocktype=\"copy\" data-pp-id=\"19.0\">Doctors involved in Crain\u2019s care did not respond to several requests for comment. The two hospitals, Baptist Hospitals of Southeast Texas and Christus Southeast Texas St. Elizabeth, declined to answer detailed lists of questions about her treatment.<\/p>\n<p data-pp-blocktype=\"copy\" data-pp-id=\"21.0\">Fails and Crain believed abortion was morally wrong. The teen could only support it in the context of rape or life-threatening illness, she used to tell her mother. They didn\u2019t care whether the government banned it, just how their Christian faith guided their own actions.<\/p>\n<p data-pp-blocktype=\"copy\" data-pp-id=\"22.0\">When they discovered Crain was pregnant with a girl, the two talked endlessly about the little dresses they could buy, what kind of mother she would be. Crain landed on the name Lillian. Fails could not wait to meet her.<\/p>\n<p data-pp-blocktype=\"copy\" data-pp-id=\"23.0\">But when her daughter got sick, Fails expected that doctors had an obligation to do everything in their power to stave off a potentially deadly emergency, even if that meant losing Lillian. In her view, they were more concerned with checking the fetal heartbeat than attending to Crain.<\/p>\n<p data-pp-blocktype=\"copy\" data-pp-id=\"24.0\">\u201cI know it sounds selfish, and God knows I would rather have both of them, but if I had to choose,\u201d Fails said, \u201cI would have chosen my daughter.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure data-pp-id=\"25\" data-pp-blocktype=\"image\" class=\"bb-image size10 center  wide-sm wrap &#10;                \">\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" alt=\"\" width=\"3000\" height=\"2000\" loading=\"lazy\" js-autosizes=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/img.assets-d.propublica.org\/v5\/images\/20241024-Villasana-AbortionDeathsNevaeh-17.jpg-_preview_maxWidth_3000_maxHeight_3000_ppi_72_embedColorProfile_true_quality_95.jpg?crop=focalpoint&amp;fit=crop&amp;fm=webp&amp;fp-x=0.5&amp;fp-y=0.5&amp;h=533&amp;q=75&amp;w=800&amp;s=a60c9ea27188f8c6d7fd2c1bab3b03cd\" srcset=\"https:\/\/img.assets-d.propublica.org\/v5\/images\/20241024-Villasana-AbortionDeathsNevaeh-17.jpg-_preview_maxWidth_3000_maxHeight_3000_ppi_72_embedColorProfile_true_quality_95.jpg?crop=focalpoint&amp;fit=crop&amp;fm=webp&amp;fp-x=0.5&amp;fp-y=0.5&amp;h=267&amp;q=75&amp;w=400&amp;s=8bc1d82e58d8ed07c8d33b1834b94579 400w, https:\/\/img.assets-d.propublica.org\/v5\/images\/20241024-Villasana-AbortionDeathsNevaeh-17.jpg-_preview_maxWidth_3000_maxHeight_3000_ppi_72_embedColorProfile_true_quality_95.jpg?crop=focalpoint&amp;fit=crop&amp;fm=webp&amp;fp-x=0.5&amp;fp-y=0.5&amp;h=533&amp;q=75&amp;w=800&amp;s=a60c9ea27188f8c6d7fd2c1bab3b03cd 800w, https:\/\/img.assets-d.propublica.org\/v5\/images\/20241024-Villasana-AbortionDeathsNevaeh-17.jpg-_preview_maxWidth_3000_maxHeight_3000_ppi_72_embedColorProfile_true_quality_95.jpg?crop=focalpoint&amp;fit=crop&amp;fm=webp&amp;fp-x=0.5&amp;fp-y=0.5&amp;h=800&amp;q=75&amp;w=1200&amp;s=531850ea1fea39688c50d686d4a13706 1200w, https:\/\/img.assets-d.propublica.org\/v5\/images\/20241024-Villasana-AbortionDeathsNevaeh-17.jpg-_preview_maxWidth_3000_maxHeight_3000_ppi_72_embedColorProfile_true_quality_95.jpg?crop=focalpoint&amp;fit=crop&amp;fm=webp&amp;fp-x=0.5&amp;fp-y=0.5&amp;h=867&amp;q=75&amp;w=1300&amp;s=539981af9608d06f05856c2e1ffafb11 1300w, https:\/\/img.assets-d.propublica.org\/v5\/images\/20241024-Villasana-AbortionDeathsNevaeh-17.jpg-_preview_maxWidth_3000_maxHeight_3000_ppi_72_embedColorProfile_true_quality_95.jpg?crop=focalpoint&amp;fit=crop&amp;fm=webp&amp;fp-x=0.5&amp;fp-y=0.5&amp;h=967&amp;q=75&amp;w=1450&amp;s=95ca9fddd79efaa4b871e2011f48a71a 1450w, https:\/\/img.assets-d.propublica.org\/v5\/images\/20241024-Villasana-AbortionDeathsNevaeh-17.jpg-_preview_maxWidth_3000_maxHeight_3000_ppi_72_embedColorProfile_true_quality_95.jpg?crop=focalpoint&amp;fit=crop&amp;fm=webp&amp;fp-x=0.5&amp;fp-y=0.5&amp;h=1067&amp;q=75&amp;w=1600&amp;s=9cc6bda7b4f8f1f465b5b57def41d7f7 1600w, https:\/\/img.assets-d.propublica.org\/v5\/images\/20241024-Villasana-AbortionDeathsNevaeh-17.jpg-_preview_maxWidth_3000_maxHeight_3000_ppi_72_embedColorProfile_true_quality_95.jpg?crop=focalpoint&amp;fit=crop&amp;fm=webp&amp;fp-x=0.5&amp;fp-y=0.5&amp;h=1333&amp;q=75&amp;w=2000&amp;s=4446192841e755db370bef16f477fabd 2000w\"\/><figcaption class=\"attribution\">\n        <span class=\"attribution__caption\">Fails says that Crain, shown here as a child with her mother, was \u201cthe gravity\u201d in her life. \u201cShe would put her arms around me like she was the adult and I was the kid and tell me I was strong.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>        <span class=\"attribution__credit\"><br \/>\n        <span class=\"a11y\">Credit: <\/span><br \/>\n        Danielle Villasana for ProPublica<br \/>\n    <\/span><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3>\u201cI\u2019m in a Lot of Pain\u201d<\/h3>\n<p data-pp-blocktype=\"copy\" data-pp-id=\"26.0\">Crain had just graduated from high school in her hometown of Vidor, Texas, in May of 2023 when she learned that she was pregnant.<\/p>\n<p data-pp-blocktype=\"copy\" data-pp-id=\"27.0\">She and her boyfriend of two years, Randall Broussard, were always hip to hip, wrestling over vapes or snuggling on the couch watching vampire movies. Crain was drawn to how gentle he was. He admired how easily she built friendships and how quickly she could make people laugh. Though they were young, they\u2019d already imagined starting a family. Broussard, who has eight siblings, wanted many kids; Crain wanted a daughter and the kind of relationship she had with her mom. Earlier that year, Broussard had given Crain a small diamond ring \u2014 \u201ca promise,\u201d he told her, \u201cthat I will always love you.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"bb-ad full | hide-print\">\n<\/aside>\n<p data-pp-blocktype=\"copy\" data-pp-id=\"29.0\">On the morning of their baby shower, Oct. 28, 2023, Crain woke with a headache. Her mom decorated the house with pink balloons and Crain laid out Halloween-themed platters. Soon, nausea set in. Crain started vomiting and was running a fever. When guests arrived, Broussard opened gifts \u2014 onesies and diapers and bows \u2014 while Crain kept closing her eyes.<\/p>\n<p data-pp-blocktype=\"copy\" data-pp-id=\"30.0\">Around 3 p.m., her family told her she needed to go to the hospital.<\/p>\n<p data-pp-blocktype=\"copy\" data-pp-id=\"31.0\">Broussard drove Crain to Baptist Hospitals of Southeast Texas. They sat in the waiting room for four hours. When Crain started vomiting, staff brought her a plastic pan. When she wasn\u2019t retching, she lay her head in her boyfriend\u2019s lap.<\/p>\n<figure data-pp-id=\"32\" data-pp-blocktype=\"intro-module\" class=\"bb-intro-module&#10;            size03 out03 wrap right bb-intro-module-article&#10;            wide-md&#10;        \">\n<h4>\n        New here?<br \/>\n    <\/h4>\n<div class=\"bb-intro-module__dek\">\n<p>We\u2019re <a href=\"https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/about\">ProPublica<\/a>, a nonprofit, independent newsroom with one job: to hold the powerful to account. 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https:\/\/img.assets-d.propublica.org\/v5\/images\/Ziklag-Lead-Moharam_2024-07-11-182230_rcku.JPG?crop=focalpoint&amp;fit=crop&amp;fm=webp&amp;fp-x=0.5&amp;fp-y=0.5&amp;h=1200&amp;q=75&amp;w=1200&amp;s=69aa1dae0397971a3982afab12c9f8d8 1200w, https:\/\/img.assets-d.propublica.org\/v5\/images\/Ziklag-Lead-Moharam_2024-07-11-182230_rcku.JPG?crop=focalpoint&amp;fit=crop&amp;fm=webp&amp;fp-x=0.5&amp;fp-y=0.5&amp;h=1300&amp;q=75&amp;w=1300&amp;s=dbefa3c47c1bbfd24fa132f117198a87 1300w, https:\/\/img.assets-d.propublica.org\/v5\/images\/Ziklag-Lead-Moharam_2024-07-11-182230_rcku.JPG?crop=focalpoint&amp;fit=crop&amp;fm=webp&amp;fp-x=0.5&amp;fp-y=0.5&amp;h=1450&amp;q=75&amp;w=1450&amp;s=b123873b82197422dcd910278fc94ee9 1450w, https:\/\/img.assets-d.propublica.org\/v5\/images\/Ziklag-Lead-Moharam_2024-07-11-182230_rcku.JPG?crop=focalpoint&amp;fit=crop&amp;fm=webp&amp;fp-x=0.5&amp;fp-y=0.5&amp;h=1600&amp;q=75&amp;w=1600&amp;s=fb3363c919140541364eb12cdc1c6490 1600w, https:\/\/img.assets-d.propublica.org\/v5\/images\/Ziklag-Lead-Moharam_2024-07-11-182230_rcku.JPG?crop=focalpoint&amp;fit=crop&amp;fm=webp&amp;fp-x=0.5&amp;fp-y=0.5&amp;h=2000&amp;q=75&amp;w=2000&amp;s=231dd13f7df42b68c793a7fbea3f4ff7 2000w\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"bb-intro-module__card-description\">\n                We revealed how<br \/>\n                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/inside-ziklag-secret-christian-charity-2024-election\">Ziklag<\/a>,<br \/>\n                a secret organization of<br \/>\n                wealthy Christians including the families behind<br \/>\n                Hobby Lobby and Uline, is spending millions to<br \/>\n                try to sway the election and change the country.\n            <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<nav class=\"bb-intro-module__nav\">\n        <a href=\"#\" class=\"bb_intro-module__nav--current\"><span\/>\u00a0<\/a><br \/>\n        <a href=\"#\"><span\/>\u00a0<\/a><br \/>\n        <a href=\"#\"><span\/>\u00a0<\/a><br \/>\n        <a href=\"#\"><span\/>\u00a0<\/a><br \/>\n    <\/nav>\n<p class=\"bb-intro-module__survey\">We\u2019re trying something new. <a href=\"https:\/\/iteratehq.com\/propublica\/670eabefffb484af7dc7db86\">Was it helpful?<\/a><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p data-pp-blocktype=\"copy\" data-pp-id=\"33.0\">A nurse practitioner ordered a test for strep throat, which came back positive, medical records show. But in a pregnant patient, abdominal pain and vomiting should not be quickly attributed to strep, physicians told ProPublica; a doctor should have also evaluated her pregnancy.<\/p>\n<p data-pp-blocktype=\"copy\" data-pp-id=\"34.0\">Instead, Baptist Hospitals discharged her with a prescription for antibiotics. She was home at 9 p.m. and quickly dozed off, but within hours, she woke her mother up. \u201cMom, my stomach is still hurting,\u201d she said into the dark bedroom at 3 a.m. \u201cI\u2019m in a lot of pain.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-pp-blocktype=\"copy\" data-pp-id=\"35.0\">Fails drove Broussard and Crain to another hospital in town, Christus Southeast Texas St. Elizabeth. Around 4:20 a.m., OB-GYN William Hawkins saw that Crain had a temperature of 102.8 and an abnormally high pulse, according to records; a nurse noted that Crain rated her abdominal pain as a seven out of 10.<\/p>\n<p data-pp-blocktype=\"copy\" data-pp-id=\"36.0\">Her vital signs pointed to possible sepsis, records show. It\u2019s standard medical practice to immediately treat patients who show signs of sepsis, which can overtake and kill a person quickly, medical experts told ProPublica. These patients should be watched until their vitals improve. Through tests and scans, the goal is to find the source of the infection. If the infection was in Crain\u2019s uterus, the fetus would likely need to be removed with a surgery.<\/p>\n<p data-pp-blocktype=\"copy\" data-pp-id=\"37.0\">In a room at the obstetric emergency department, a nurse wrapped a sensor belt around Crain\u2019s belly to check the fetal heart rate. \u201cBaby\u2019s fine,\u201d Broussard told Fails, who was sitting in the hallway.<\/p>\n<p data-pp-blocktype=\"copy\" data-pp-id=\"38.0\">After two hours of IV fluids, one dose of antibiotics, and some Tylenol, Crain\u2019s fever didn\u2019t go down, her pulse remained high, and the fetal heart rate was abnormally fast, medical records show. Hawkins noted that Crain had strep and a urinary tract infection, wrote up a prescription and discharged her.<\/p>\n<p data-pp-blocktype=\"copy\" data-pp-id=\"39.0\">Hawkins had missed infections before. Eight years earlier, the Texas Medical Board found that he had failed to diagnose appendicitis in one patient and syphilis in another. In the latter case, the board noted that his error \u201cmay have contributed to the fetal demise of one of her twins.\u201d The board issued an order to have Hawkins\u2019 medical practice monitored; the order was lifted two years later. (Hawkins did not respond to several attempts to reach him.)<\/p>\n<p data-pp-blocktype=\"copy\" data-pp-id=\"40.0\">All of the doctors who reviewed Crain\u2019s vital signs for ProPublica said she should have been admitted. \u201cShe should have never left, never left,\u201d said Elise Boos, an OB-GYN in Tennessee. <\/p>\n<p data-pp-blocktype=\"copy\" data-pp-id=\"40.1\">Kass, the New York emergency physician, put it in starker terms: When they discharged her, they were \u201cpushing her down the path of no return.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-pp-blocktype=\"copy\" data-pp-id=\"41.0\">\u201cIt\u2019s bullshit,\u201d Fails said as Broussard rolled Crain out in a wheelchair; she was unable to walk on her own. Fails had expected the hospital to keep her overnight. Her daughter was breathing heavily, hunched over in pain, pale in the face. Normally talkative, the teen was quiet.<\/p>\n<figure data-pp-id=\"42\" data-pp-blocktype=\"image\" class=\"bb-image size10 center  wide-sm wrap &#10;                \">\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" alt=\"\" width=\"3000\" height=\"2000\" loading=\"lazy\" js-autosizes=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/img.assets-d.propublica.org\/v5\/images\/20241024-Villasana-AbortionDeathsNevaeh-36.jpg-_preview_maxWidth_3000_maxHeight_3000_ppi_72_embedColorProfile_true_quality_95.jpg?crop=focalpoint&amp;fit=crop&amp;fm=webp&amp;fp-x=0.5&amp;fp-y=0.5&amp;h=533&amp;q=75&amp;w=800&amp;s=d8ccf7c83fdb2d8b21d8150a2e1040c8\" srcset=\"https:\/\/img.assets-d.propublica.org\/v5\/images\/20241024-Villasana-AbortionDeathsNevaeh-36.jpg-_preview_maxWidth_3000_maxHeight_3000_ppi_72_embedColorProfile_true_quality_95.jpg?crop=focalpoint&amp;fit=crop&amp;fm=webp&amp;fp-x=0.5&amp;fp-y=0.5&amp;h=267&amp;q=75&amp;w=400&amp;s=2639d7c6109c377f98ddaee758737796 400w, https:\/\/img.assets-d.propublica.org\/v5\/images\/20241024-Villasana-AbortionDeathsNevaeh-36.jpg-_preview_maxWidth_3000_maxHeight_3000_ppi_72_embedColorProfile_true_quality_95.jpg?crop=focalpoint&amp;fit=crop&amp;fm=webp&amp;fp-x=0.5&amp;fp-y=0.5&amp;h=533&amp;q=75&amp;w=800&amp;s=d8ccf7c83fdb2d8b21d8150a2e1040c8 800w, https:\/\/img.assets-d.propublica.org\/v5\/images\/20241024-Villasana-AbortionDeathsNevaeh-36.jpg-_preview_maxWidth_3000_maxHeight_3000_ppi_72_embedColorProfile_true_quality_95.jpg?crop=focalpoint&amp;fit=crop&amp;fm=webp&amp;fp-x=0.5&amp;fp-y=0.5&amp;h=800&amp;q=75&amp;w=1200&amp;s=e1d2c33f39412961e69c7aa7f49ec49a 1200w, https:\/\/img.assets-d.propublica.org\/v5\/images\/20241024-Villasana-AbortionDeathsNevaeh-36.jpg-_preview_maxWidth_3000_maxHeight_3000_ppi_72_embedColorProfile_true_quality_95.jpg?crop=focalpoint&amp;fit=crop&amp;fm=webp&amp;fp-x=0.5&amp;fp-y=0.5&amp;h=867&amp;q=75&amp;w=1300&amp;s=be386256cc70b1910215364a782b0eb9 1300w, https:\/\/img.assets-d.propublica.org\/v5\/images\/20241024-Villasana-AbortionDeathsNevaeh-36.jpg-_preview_maxWidth_3000_maxHeight_3000_ppi_72_embedColorProfile_true_quality_95.jpg?crop=focalpoint&amp;fit=crop&amp;fm=webp&amp;fp-x=0.5&amp;fp-y=0.5&amp;h=967&amp;q=75&amp;w=1450&amp;s=bd32e6f56668428543b3a4b254e0691b 1450w, https:\/\/img.assets-d.propublica.org\/v5\/images\/20241024-Villasana-AbortionDeathsNevaeh-36.jpg-_preview_maxWidth_3000_maxHeight_3000_ppi_72_embedColorProfile_true_quality_95.jpg?crop=focalpoint&amp;fit=crop&amp;fm=webp&amp;fp-x=0.5&amp;fp-y=0.5&amp;h=1067&amp;q=75&amp;w=1600&amp;s=a2fc12c53771f129aa2a508812944bb3 1600w, https:\/\/img.assets-d.propublica.org\/v5\/images\/20241024-Villasana-AbortionDeathsNevaeh-36.jpg-_preview_maxWidth_3000_maxHeight_3000_ppi_72_embedColorProfile_true_quality_95.jpg?crop=focalpoint&amp;fit=crop&amp;fm=webp&amp;fp-x=0.5&amp;fp-y=0.5&amp;h=1333&amp;q=75&amp;w=2000&amp;s=efd672c16fd4cc79c3f252d2c46be475 2000w\"\/><figcaption class=\"attribution\">\n        <span class=\"attribution__caption\">Crain\u2019s boyfriend, Randall Broussard, and mother at Fails\u2019 home in Vidor, Texas<\/span><\/p>\n<p>        <span class=\"attribution__credit\"><br \/>\n        <span class=\"a11y\">Credit: <\/span><br \/>\n        Danielle Villasana for ProPublica<br \/>\n    <\/span><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p data-pp-blocktype=\"copy\" data-pp-id=\"43.0\">Back home, around 7 a.m., Fails tried to get her daughter comfortable as she cried and moaned. She told Fails she needed to pee, and her mother helped her into the bathroom. \u201cMom, come here,\u201d she said from the toilet. Blood stained her underwear.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"bb-ad full | hide-print\">\n<\/aside>\n<p data-pp-blocktype=\"copy\" data-pp-id=\"45.0\">The blood confirmed Fails\u2019 instinct: This was a miscarriage.<\/p>\n<p data-pp-blocktype=\"copy\" data-pp-id=\"46.0\">At 9 a.m, a full day after the nausea began, they were back at Christus St. Elizabeth. Crain\u2019s lips were drained of color and she kept saying she was going to pass out. Staff started her on IV antibiotics and performed a bedside ultrasound.<\/p>\n<p data-pp-blocktype=\"copy\" data-pp-id=\"47.0\">Around 9:30 a.m., the OB on duty, Dr. Marcelo Totorica, couldn\u2019t find a fetal heart rate, according to records; he told the family he was sorry for their loss.<\/p>\n<p data-pp-blocktype=\"copy\" data-pp-id=\"48.0\">Standard protocol when a critically ill patient experiences a miscarriage is to stabilize her and, in most cases, hurry to the operating room for delivery, medical experts said. This is especially urgent with a spreading infection. But at Christus St. Elizabeth, the OB-GYN just continued antibiotic care. A half-hour later, as nurses placed a catheter, Fails noticed her daughter\u2019s thighs were covered in blood.<\/p>\n<p data-pp-blocktype=\"copy\" data-pp-id=\"49.0\">At 10 a.m., Melissa McIntosh, a labor and delivery nurse, spoke to Totorica about Crain\u2019s condition. The teen was now having contractions. \u201cDr. Totorica states to not move patient,\u201d she wrote after talking with him. \u201cDr. Totorica states there is a slight chance patient may need to go to ICU and he wants the bedside ultrasound to be done stat for sure before admitting to room.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-pp-blocktype=\"copy\" data-pp-id=\"50.0\">Though he had already performed an ultrasound, he was asking for a second. <\/p>\n<p data-pp-blocktype=\"copy\" data-pp-id=\"50.1\">The first hadn\u2019t preserved an image of Crain\u2019s womb in the medical record. \u201cBedside ultrasounds aren\u2019t always set up to save images permanently,\u201d said Abbott, the Boston OB-GYN.<\/p>\n<p data-pp-blocktype=\"copy\" data-pp-id=\"51.0\">The state\u2019s laws banning abortion require that doctors record the absence of a fetal heartbeat before intervening with a procedure that could end a pregnancy. Exceptions for medical emergencies demand physicians document their reasoning. \u201cPretty consistently, people say, \u2018Until we can be absolutely certain this isn\u2019t a normal pregnancy, we can\u2019t do anything, because it could be alleged that we were doing an abortion,\u2019\u201d said Dr. Tony Ogburn, an OB-GYN in San Antonio.<\/p>\n<p data-pp-blocktype=\"copy\" data-pp-id=\"52.0\">At 10:40 a.m, Crain\u2019s blood pressure was dropping. Minutes later, Totorica was paging for an emergency team over the loudspeakers.<\/p>\n<p data-pp-blocktype=\"copy\" data-pp-id=\"53.0\">Around 11 a.m., two hours after Crain had arrived at the hospital, a second ultrasound was performed. A nurse noted: \u201cBedside ultrasound at this time to confirm fetal demise per Dr. Totorica\u2019s orders.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-pp-blocktype=\"copy\" data-pp-id=\"54.0\">When doctors wheeled Crain into the ICU at 11:20 a.m., Fails stayed by her side, rubbing her head, as her daughter dipped in and out of consciousness. Crain couldn\u2019t sign consent forms for her care because of \u201cextreme pain,\u201d according to the records, so Fails signed a release for \u201cunplanned dilation and curettage\u201d or \u201cunplanned cesarean section.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-pp-blocktype=\"copy\" data-pp-id=\"55.0\">But the doctors quickly decided it was now too risky to operate, according to records. They suspected that she had developed a dangerous complication of sepsis known as disseminated intravascular coagulation; she was bleeding internally.<\/p>\n<p data-pp-blocktype=\"copy\" data-pp-id=\"56.0\">Frantic and crying, Fails locked eyes with her daughter. \u201cYou\u2019re strong, Nevaeh,\u201d she said. \u201cGod made us strong.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-pp-blocktype=\"copy\" data-pp-id=\"56.1\">Crain sat up in the cot. Old, black blood gushed from her nostrils and mouth.<\/p>\n<figure data-pp-id=\"57\" data-pp-blocktype=\"image\" class=\"bb-image size12 center  wide-sm wrap &#10;                \">\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" alt=\"\" width=\"3000\" height=\"2000\" loading=\"lazy\" js-autosizes=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/img.assets-d.propublica.org\/v5\/images\/20241024-Villasana-AbortionDeathsNevaeh-03.jpg-_preview_maxWidth_3000_maxHeight_3000_ppi_72_embedColorProfile_true_quality_95.jpg?crop=focalpoint&amp;fit=crop&amp;fm=webp&amp;fp-x=0.5&amp;fp-y=0.5&amp;h=533&amp;q=75&amp;w=800&amp;s=a60bd7db2c0f0a2716c66a512e92aa2f\" srcset=\"https:\/\/img.assets-d.propublica.org\/v5\/images\/20241024-Villasana-AbortionDeathsNevaeh-03.jpg-_preview_maxWidth_3000_maxHeight_3000_ppi_72_embedColorProfile_true_quality_95.jpg?crop=focalpoint&amp;fit=crop&amp;fm=webp&amp;fp-x=0.5&amp;fp-y=0.5&amp;h=267&amp;q=75&amp;w=400&amp;s=2e90b4d088c82e5b653fd645a3a4f297 400w, https:\/\/img.assets-d.propublica.org\/v5\/images\/20241024-Villasana-AbortionDeathsNevaeh-03.jpg-_preview_maxWidth_3000_maxHeight_3000_ppi_72_embedColorProfile_true_quality_95.jpg?crop=focalpoint&amp;fit=crop&amp;fm=webp&amp;fp-x=0.5&amp;fp-y=0.5&amp;h=533&amp;q=75&amp;w=800&amp;s=a60bd7db2c0f0a2716c66a512e92aa2f 800w, https:\/\/img.assets-d.propublica.org\/v5\/images\/20241024-Villasana-AbortionDeathsNevaeh-03.jpg-_preview_maxWidth_3000_maxHeight_3000_ppi_72_embedColorProfile_true_quality_95.jpg?crop=focalpoint&amp;fit=crop&amp;fm=webp&amp;fp-x=0.5&amp;fp-y=0.5&amp;h=800&amp;q=75&amp;w=1200&amp;s=f7dbefe81964b10b3b45ad2d220b9eb5 1200w, https:\/\/img.assets-d.propublica.org\/v5\/images\/20241024-Villasana-AbortionDeathsNevaeh-03.jpg-_preview_maxWidth_3000_maxHeight_3000_ppi_72_embedColorProfile_true_quality_95.jpg?crop=focalpoint&amp;fit=crop&amp;fm=webp&amp;fp-x=0.5&amp;fp-y=0.5&amp;h=867&amp;q=75&amp;w=1300&amp;s=e04b11df541b8a1ff6a984c3592c72f4 1300w, https:\/\/img.assets-d.propublica.org\/v5\/images\/20241024-Villasana-AbortionDeathsNevaeh-03.jpg-_preview_maxWidth_3000_maxHeight_3000_ppi_72_embedColorProfile_true_quality_95.jpg?crop=focalpoint&amp;fit=crop&amp;fm=webp&amp;fp-x=0.5&amp;fp-y=0.5&amp;h=967&amp;q=75&amp;w=1450&amp;s=c226d0ccb043dbcaf1d7f8d29ebbc32c 1450w, https:\/\/img.assets-d.propublica.org\/v5\/images\/20241024-Villasana-AbortionDeathsNevaeh-03.jpg-_preview_maxWidth_3000_maxHeight_3000_ppi_72_embedColorProfile_true_quality_95.jpg?crop=focalpoint&amp;fit=crop&amp;fm=webp&amp;fp-x=0.5&amp;fp-y=0.5&amp;h=1067&amp;q=75&amp;w=1600&amp;s=7b026cb965e2bc70667e8d2670d9f0ef 1600w, https:\/\/img.assets-d.propublica.org\/v5\/images\/20241024-Villasana-AbortionDeathsNevaeh-03.jpg-_preview_maxWidth_3000_maxHeight_3000_ppi_72_embedColorProfile_true_quality_95.jpg?crop=focalpoint&amp;fit=crop&amp;fm=webp&amp;fp-x=0.5&amp;fp-y=0.5&amp;h=1333&amp;q=75&amp;w=2000&amp;s=f374b2bf7a03294f47d78bff8aee0f49 2000w\"\/><figcaption class=\"attribution\">\n        <span class=\"attribution__caption\">Fails visits the grave of her daughter and granddaughter, Lillian Faye Broussard, in Buna, Texas.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>        <span class=\"attribution__credit\"><br \/>\n        <span class=\"a11y\">Credit: <\/span><br \/>\n        Danielle Villasana for ProPublica<br \/>\n    <\/span><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3>\u201cThe Law Is on Our Side\u201d<\/h3>\n<p data-pp-blocktype=\"copy\" data-pp-id=\"59.0\">Crain is one of at least two pregnant Texas women who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/josseli-barnica-death-miscarriage-texas-abortion-ban\">died after doctors delayed treating miscarriages<\/a>, ProPublica found.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"bb-ad full | hide-print\">\n<\/aside>\n<p data-pp-blocktype=\"copy\" data-pp-id=\"61.0\">Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has successfully made his state the only one in the country that isn\u2019t required to follow the Biden administration\u2019s efforts to ensure that emergency departments don\u2019t turn away patients like Crain.<\/p>\n<p data-pp-blocktype=\"copy\" data-pp-id=\"62.0\">After the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the constitutional right to abortion, the administration issued guidance on how states with bans should follow the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act. The federal law requires hospitals that receive funding through Medicare \u2014 which is virtually all of them \u2014 to stabilize or transfer anyone who arrives in their emergency rooms. That goes for pregnant patients, the guidance argues, even if that means violating state law and providing an abortion.<\/p>\n<p data-pp-blocktype=\"copy\" data-pp-id=\"63.0\">Paxton responded by <a href=\"https:\/\/litigationtracker.law.georgetown.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Becerra_2022.07.14_COMPLAINT.pdf\">filing a lawsuit in 2022<\/a>, saying the federal guidance \u201cforces hospitals and doctors to commit crimes,\u201d and was an \u201cattempt to use federal law to transform every emergency room in the country into a walk-in abortion clinic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-pp-blocktype=\"copy\" data-pp-id=\"64.0\">Part of the battle has centered on who is eligible for abortion. The federal EMTALA guidelines apply when the health of the pregnant patient is in \u201cserious jeopardy.\u201d That\u2019s a wider range of circumstances than the Texas abortion restriction, which only makes exceptions for a \u201crisk of death\u201d or \u201ca serious risk of substantial impairment of a major bodily function.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-pp-blocktype=\"copy\" data-pp-id=\"65.0\">The lawsuit worked its way through three layers of federal courts, and each time it was met by judges nominated by former President Donald Trump, whose court appointments were pivotal to overturning Roe v. Wade.<\/p>\n<p data-pp-blocktype=\"copy\" data-pp-id=\"66.0\">After U.S. District Judge James Wesley Hendrix, a Trump appointee, quickly sided with Texas, Paxton celebrated the triumph over \u201cleft-wing bureaucrats in Washington.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-pp-blocktype=\"copy\" data-pp-id=\"66.1\">\u201cThe decision last night proves what we knew all along,\u201d Paxton added. \u201cThe law is on our side.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-pp-blocktype=\"copy\" data-pp-id=\"67.0\">This year, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ca5.uscourts.gov\/opinions\/pub\/23\/23-10246-CV0.pdf\">upheld the order<\/a> in a ruling authored by Kurt D. Engelhardt, another judge nominated by Trump.<\/p>\n<p data-pp-blocktype=\"copy\" data-pp-id=\"68.0\">The Biden administration appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court, urging the justices to make it clear that some emergency abortions are allowed.<\/p>\n<p data-pp-blocktype=\"copy\" data-pp-id=\"69.0\">Even amid news of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/georgia-abortion-ban-amber-thurman-death\">preventable deaths<\/a> related to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/candi-miller-abortion-ban-death-georgia\">abortion bans<\/a>, the Supreme Court declined to do so last month.<\/p>\n<p data-pp-blocktype=\"copy\" data-pp-id=\"70.0\">Paxton called this \u201ca major victory\u201d for the state\u2019s abortion ban. <\/p>\n<p data-pp-blocktype=\"copy\" data-pp-id=\"70.1\">He has also made clear that he will bring charges against physicians for performing abortions if he decides that the cases don\u2019t fall within Texas\u2019 narrow medical exceptions.<\/p>\n<p data-pp-blocktype=\"copy\" data-pp-id=\"71.0\">Last year, he sent a letter threatening to prosecute a doctor who had received court approval to provide an emergency abortion for a Dallas woman. He insisted that the doctor and her patient had not proven how, precisely, the patient\u2019s condition threatened her life.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"bb-ad full | hide-print\">\n<\/aside>\n<p data-pp-blocktype=\"copy\" data-pp-id=\"73.0\">Many doctors say this kind of message has encouraged doctors to \u201cpunt\u201d patients instead of treating them.<\/p>\n<p data-pp-blocktype=\"copy\" data-pp-id=\"74.0\">Since the abortion bans went into effect, an OB-GYN at a major hospital in San Antonio has seen an uptick in pregnant patients being sent to them from across Southern Texas, as they suffer from complications that could easily be treated close to home.<\/p>\n<p data-pp-blocktype=\"copy\" data-pp-id=\"75.0\">The well-resourced hospital is perceived to have more institutional support to provide abortions and miscarriage management, the doctor said. Other providers \u201care transferring those patients to our centers because, frankly, they don\u2019t want to deal with them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-pp-blocktype=\"copy\" data-pp-id=\"76.0\">After Crain died, Fails couldn\u2019t stop thinking about how Christus Southeast Hospital had ignored her daughter\u2019s condition. \u201cShe was bleeding,\u201d she said. \u201cWhy didn\u2019t they do anything to help it along instead of wait for another ultrasound to confirm the baby is dead?\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-pp-blocktype=\"copy\" data-pp-id=\"77.0\">It was the medical examiner, not the doctors at the hospital, who removed Lillian from Crain\u2019s womb. His autopsy didn\u2019t resolve Fails\u2019 lingering questions about what the hospitals missed and why. He called the death \u201cnatural\u201d and attributed it to \u201ccomplications of pregnancy.\u201d He did note, however, that Crain was \u201crepeatedly seeking medical care for a progressive illness\u201d just before she died.<\/p>\n<aside data-pp-id=\"78\" data-pp-blocktype=\"promo\" data-pp-location=\"story promo\" dir=\"ltr\" class=\"bb-promo-story story-promo-group size04 right out02 wide-sm wrap | hide-print\">\n<p>        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/josseli-barnica-death-miscarriage-texas-abortion-ban\" class=\"story-promo section-articles\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"story-promo__art\">\n                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyload\" alt=\"\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%27%20width%3D%271%27%20height%3D%271%27%20style%3D%27background%3Atransparent%27%2F%3E\" width=\"75\" height=\"75\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/img.assets-d.propublica.org\/v5\/images\/JosseliBarnica_preview_maxWidth_3000_maxHeight_3000_ppi_72_embedColorProfile_true_quality_95.jpg?crop=focalpoint&amp;fit=crop&amp;fp-x=0.5104&amp;fp-y=0.1827&amp;h=75&amp;q=70&amp;w=75&amp;s=759a5436141a381d1ae1d237b2236255 75w, https:\/\/img.assets-d.propublica.org\/v5\/images\/JosseliBarnica_preview_maxWidth_3000_maxHeight_3000_ppi_72_embedColorProfile_true_quality_95.jpg?crop=focalpoint&amp;fit=crop&amp;fp-x=0.5104&amp;fp-y=0.1827&amp;h=150&amp;q=70&amp;w=150&amp;s=1db77e819f037748c59616543babe233 150w, https:\/\/img.assets-d.propublica.org\/v5\/images\/JosseliBarnica_preview_maxWidth_3000_maxHeight_3000_ppi_72_embedColorProfile_true_quality_95.jpg?crop=focalpoint&amp;fit=crop&amp;fp-x=0.5104&amp;fp-y=0.1827&amp;h=400&amp;q=70&amp;w=400&amp;s=45d170805eb9dd648951a4a5e3fddeb6 400w\"\/>\n                    <\/div>\n<p>\n                <strong class=\"story-promo__hed\">A Woman Died After Being Told It Would Be a \u201cCrime\u201d to Intervene in Her Miscarriage at a Texas Hospital<\/strong>\n                            <\/p>\n<p>        <\/a><\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<p data-pp-blocktype=\"copy\" data-pp-id=\"79.0\">Last November, Fails reached out to medical malpractice lawyers to see about getting justice through the courts. A different legal barrier now stood in her way.<\/p>\n<p data-pp-blocktype=\"copy\" data-pp-id=\"80.0\">If Crain had experienced these same delays as an inpatient, Fails would have needed to establish that the hospital violated medical standards. That, she believed, she could do. But because the delays and discharges occurred in an area of the hospital classified as an emergency room, lawyers said that Texas law set a much higher burden of proof: \u201cwillful and wanton negligence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-pp-blocktype=\"copy\" data-pp-id=\"81.0\">No lawyer has agreed to take the case.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-body__bottom-notes\" data-pp-location=\"bottom-note\">\n<div class=\"article-body__note article-body__note--contributor-line\" data-pp-location=\"bottom-note\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/people\/mariam-elba\">Mariam Elba<\/a> contributed research. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/people\/cassandra-jaramillo\">Cassandra Jaramillo<\/a> contributed reporting. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/people\/andrea-suozzo\">Andrea Suozzo<\/a> contributed data reporting.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- end .article-body__bottom-notes --><\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/nevaeh-crain-death-texas-abortion-ban-emtala\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. 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